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The Toronto stock market enjoyed a solid increase Monday as both the mining and health-care sectors found strength from two high-profile deals - one made official and the other later denied by the company involved.

The collapse in crude prices has meant less demand for the charter airlines that ferry workers back and forth from the oilpatch, but a Calgary entrepreneur has come up with an unusual way to make the most of the idle planes: share them.

Constraints imposed by the rail transportation system will make it difficult, if not impossible, to reach the ambitious target set out in the provincial government's Plan for Growth of doubling exports to $59 billion by 2020, according to a study released Monday by the Conference Board of Canada.

The federal government has decided not to renew the requirement for CN Railway and CP railways to transport minimum volumes of grain by rail after the current Order in Council expired on Saturday. On Monday in Saskatoon, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said the Order in Council had achieved its goals.

The federal government is not renewing its requirement for Canadian National Railway (CN) Company and Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CP) to transport minimum volumes of grain by rail after the current Order in Council expired on Saturday. “I am pleased that the government’s action requiring minimum volumes had its intended effect and that the movement of grain by rail is once again running at a rate that contributes to strong economic growth,” said Transport Minister Lisa Raitt in a news release. “We look forward to continuing to work with both shippers and producers to ensure that the efficiency of the supply chain continues to improve, contributing to the country’s long term economic growth.”

Another day, another report from an alternative energy-public policy group slamming the $1.47-billion carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at SaskPower's Boundary Dam power station at Estevan. This time, the study comes from Saskatchewan Community Wind, which is proposing a 10-turbine wind project near Saskatoon or another community with a suitable wind regime and $50 million of capital to invest.

Industry watchers or franchisees waiting for Tim Hortons' new owner 3G Capital to rework the restaurant model from the ground up need not worry, executives said Thursday - they don't want to mess with a formula that has worked well for so many years.

Saskatchewan's merchandise exports to countries other than the United States totalled $12.6 billion in 2014, surpassing the $11.9 billion posted by Alberta last year and setting a record for the province, the Ministry of the Economy said Thursday.